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host: washington, go ahead. caller: are you aware of the president's -- the brazilian president's speech in copenhagen where he said, the problem is the white people in the world. the second question is there is a country -- a company in brazil that is an offshore drilling company that in june, the obama administration gave a $15 billion loan to and i think is quite ironic that in february, george soros bought majority shares in that company. effectively, this administration has paid back george soros for getting elected with taxpayer funds. guest: i do not know anything about the second issue, but i can comment on the first. the brazilian president is a colorful, charismatic leader. then he has been for some to, to a half years. very annoyed that they have had to do things that the united states and europe-not have to do. and he has -- have not had to do. and he has been very open about saying that they have not had to do things that they've had to do in developing countries. host: salt lake city, democratic cr
host: washington, go ahead. caller: are you aware of the president's -- the brazilian president's speech in copenhagen where he said, the problem is the white people in the world. the second question is there is a country -- a company in brazil that is an offshore drilling company that in june, the obama administration gave a $15 billion loan to and i think is quite ironic that in february, george soros bought majority shares in that company. effectively, this administration has paid back...
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i read "the washington post" and in " the washington journal." i didn't think we have given up any sovereignty in our agreement with interpol. we have gone to the point where -- we were alienated -- where are first judgment is to doubt whether or not to have confidence. we need to turn that around. we need to do that by modeling confidence so that we can develop confidence so that your first thought is not that they're going to do something wrong, but that they are going to do something right. we have created that through the years with the federal government. the federal government's action with us is that you're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent. i am not talkingÑi about a court of law, but the bureaucracy. we are going to assume that you're doing it right and have to prove that you're doing it wrong. that is not where we are today in terms of how the american public has to interact with bureaucracy. i am not worried about that. i may be wrong to not be worried, but you can tell me so in a couple of months. summary on the side, rich
i read "the washington post" and in " the washington journal." i didn't think we have given up any sovereignty in our agreement with interpol. we have gone to the point where -- we were alienated -- where are first judgment is to doubt whether or not to have confidence. we need to turn that around. we need to do that by modeling confidence so that we can develop confidence so that your first thought is not that they're going to do something wrong, but that they are going to...
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eastern. >> each year, the washington center brings thousands of students to washington, d.c. 6 there is the workings of our government firsthand. they will discuss politics, government, and their futures. >> president obama today announced proposals aimed at risky practices by the banking industry. john by members of his economic team and house financial services chairman barney frank, he speaks for about 10 minutes. >> i just had an important meeting with my advisory board, paul volcker and bill donaldson. i deeply appreciate the council they have offered as we have dealt with a broad array of economic challenges. over the past two years, 7 million americans have lost their jobs in the deepest recession our country has known in generations. rarely does a day go by that i did i hear from folks that are hurting. we are working to put our economy back on track and put america back to work. even as we dig our way out of the holes, it is important that to not lose sight of what put us in this mess in the first place. the economic crisis began as a financial crisis banks and financial ins
eastern. >> each year, the washington center brings thousands of students to washington, d.c. 6 there is the workings of our government firsthand. they will discuss politics, government, and their futures. >> president obama today announced proposals aimed at risky practices by the banking industry. john by members of his economic team and house financial services chairman barney frank, he speaks for about 10 minutes. >> i just had an important meeting with my advisory board,...
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it is just nice being out of washington. there are some nice people in washington. they can drive you crazy. am i wrong, sherry? [laughter] vilege of traveling across this country, talking with folks like you about the challenges you face in your own lives, and together as a nation. the single hardest thing about being is that it is harder for me to be able to do that these days. it did that give me wrong. you live above the store. i have a short commute. i see my children before they go to work. that makes everything so much better. but the truth is, being president is also a little confining. i cannot discuss to the barber shop or sit at the diner. this is part of the reason why i taken to the practice of reading 10 late tears on the 40,000 i get every night. that is just so that i can stay in touch. nothing beats in the day i can make an escape. come out here and spend a day - to visit plants like emc precision machining and the community college. a day with all of you. >> i love you. >> i love you back. thank you. [applause] >> let's be on this. -- honest. these
it is just nice being out of washington. there are some nice people in washington. they can drive you crazy. am i wrong, sherry? [laughter] vilege of traveling across this country, talking with folks like you about the challenges you face in your own lives, and together as a nation. the single hardest thing about being is that it is harder for me to be able to do that these days. it did that give me wrong. you live above the store. i have a short commute. i see my children before they go to...
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i bet they can hear this sharing of the way in washington, d.c. -- charing all the way in washington, d.c. >> [cheering] >> thank you. thank you. yes, i did this morning. thank you. i hope they are playing close attention. tonight the independent voice in massachusetts has spoken. from spring killed two cape cod, the voters decided toe odds. we have delivered a great victory. i think the people of massachusetts for electing me as your next united states senator. >> [cheering] >[ chanting "41"] >> everyday i hold this office, i will give that is all inmates to serve you well and make you proud. -- all in me to serve you well and make you proud. i will never -- thank you. while the honor is mine, the senate seat belongs to no one person or political party. as i have said before, this is the people's seat. >> [chatning "people's seat"] >> thank you very much. i spoke to the center. he has completed his work as the senator. i spoke to him. he is very gracious. he welcomes me as soon as i can get there. i want to thank him from the bottom of my heart. >> [chanting indiscriminately] >> i wa
i bet they can hear this sharing of the way in washington, d.c. -- charing all the way in washington, d.c. >> [cheering] >> thank you. thank you. yes, i did this morning. thank you. i hope they are playing close attention. tonight the independent voice in massachusetts has spoken. from spring killed two cape cod, the voters decided toe odds. we have delivered a great victory. i think the people of massachusetts for electing me as your next united states senator. >> [cheering]...
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i do not think washington here is what they are saying. they clearly do not believe the president and miss pelosi and wt the president saying. they are saying enough is enough. they sent a message. washington should listen. >> does it with the republicans back in power? >> i think they want the job killing agenda in washington to stop. they are not enamored with us. they have seen with the other teams will do. >> you said that you favor bipartisan legislation. do you think that the irresponsibility of the majority, the only way they can get it is to get the minority? >> there are 59 democrats in the senate and 41 republicans. in the house, the democrat majority is 40 seats larger than the minority. the only bipartisan opposition to the job killing agenda are republicans and moderate democrats were saying, no, stop. they do not need us to pass legislation there has been no outreach of year. i want to sit down and try to address the problems that we have. i know my principles are. i am not going to sacrifice my principles by sitting down and
i do not think washington here is what they are saying. they clearly do not believe the president and miss pelosi and wt the president saying. they are saying enough is enough. they sent a message. washington should listen. >> does it with the republicans back in power? >> i think they want the job killing agenda in washington to stop. they are not enamored with us. they have seen with the other teams will do. >> you said that you favor bipartisan legislation. do you think...
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but, it would that be only washington dc. i don't know what happened to the cia, all of these things. i am asking you to be a little patience with haiti, but having said so, i think ambassador noriega said something in his introduction that is fitting. haitians are very resilient i even see a silver lining in what happened on january 12th. on april 30th, 2004 i wrote a column for the now defunct new york sun, and i had one phrase there, a sentence, port-au-prince is a mammoth catastrophe waiting to happen. i made that comment because coming from the air in the american airlines, i was looking at the city, the that i had left 13 years earlier and i saw all of these match boxes over the hills. and, the mountain is the backdrop to port-au-prince mount hospital was disfigured, and i wrote to, unless something is done immediately, big chunks of this city will be gone into the caribbean sea. at the time i did not see an earthquake. haiti, being in the hurricane ali, i saw a major hurricane that would have wiped all of these flimsy
but, it would that be only washington dc. i don't know what happened to the cia, all of these things. i am asking you to be a little patience with haiti, but having said so, i think ambassador noriega said something in his introduction that is fitting. haitians are very resilient i even see a silver lining in what happened on january 12th. on april 30th, 2004 i wrote a column for the now defunct new york sun, and i had one phrase there, a sentence, port-au-prince is a mammoth catastrophe...
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our guest on washington journal was surgeon in greater dr. atul gawande. >> host: we are going to introduce you to our final guest dr. atul gawande who is a surgeon and he is also been inside the debate over public policy on health care for a decade and a half now. he has in the pastored number of books including insurgent know the performance complications a surgeon's notes on imperfect science in his latest book is called the checklist manifesto how to get things right. we are going to talk to him about that this money. during the clinton years he served as senior health policy adviser during both the campaign and the white house '92 and '93 and you can read him on a fairly regular basis in the new new yorkers so thanks for being here. when did you make the decision in addition to practicing you would also be involved in health care policy? >> guest: it was, i tried to avoid being a doctor for a while. this son of two indian doctors you naturally are going to become a doctor yourself and i wanted to push against my own inevitable path, and
our guest on washington journal was surgeon in greater dr. atul gawande. >> host: we are going to introduce you to our final guest dr. atul gawande who is a surgeon and he is also been inside the debate over public policy on health care for a decade and a half now. he has in the pastored number of books including insurgent know the performance complications a surgeon's notes on imperfect science in his latest book is called the checklist manifesto how to get things right. we are going to...
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it is happening in washington. washington is starting to act like massachusetts in that regard. i think we can do better. i can go down there and bring conversations back. as the 60th senator, debate will be cut off and that is not good for democracy. i hope i get the opportunity on january 19. i appreciate everyone being here and what you have done. >> thank you for moderating and thanks for coming out. this election a week from now is about the economy and about the future. this is about big government candidates against a small government canada. what you need to ask yourself is, scott will spend money on war. martha will spend money on health care. who do you want to spend your money? do you want the government to spend your money? do you want to make those decisions for yourself? i am the only candidate who will cut spending. i will repeal obamacare and file legislation to end the wars and bring that money back to the people of massachusetts and the rest of the country. i will audit the federal reserve. i am willing to cut the spending. you have to ask yourself, would you w
it is happening in washington. washington is starting to act like massachusetts in that regard. i think we can do better. i can go down there and bring conversations back. as the 60th senator, debate will be cut off and that is not good for democracy. i hope i get the opportunity on january 19. i appreciate everyone being here and what you have done. >> thank you for moderating and thanks for coming out. this election a week from now is about the economy and about the future. this is...
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i grew up in petworth here in washington, d.c. i'm an urban kid. i have -- i cut my teeth on the politics of this city with the likes of david clark and john ray, and eleanor holmes norton, watching them maneuver and fight for the city. my experiences are different than most states and certainly national chairman. with respect to, you know, our major donors. ralph e. boyd doesn't understand how it works. i don't know who he's talking to. but in typical fashion, a lot of things are gotten wrong. and the reality of it is if talk to anyone who's quote a major donor for the democrat or the republicans, those individuals run businesses that got stocked by a recession that was one of the worst in 20 or 30 years. so they didn't have the resources, the extra cash, if you will, to play politics. and so there was a lot of slow down. and a lot of, you know, lack of access to those dollars to do the things that you would normally do. however, we have put in place some creative strategies to bring our donors back. and beginning in july or so, we started seeing
i grew up in petworth here in washington, d.c. i'm an urban kid. i have -- i cut my teeth on the politics of this city with the likes of david clark and john ray, and eleanor holmes norton, watching them maneuver and fight for the city. my experiences are different than most states and certainly national chairman. with respect to, you know, our major donors. ralph e. boyd doesn't understand how it works. i don't know who he's talking to. but in typical fashion, a lot of things are gotten wrong....
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. >> hello, i'm with the "washington quarterly" at cis. every since obama has come into office and his speech on november 1 about the troop surge, comparisons have been drawn with vietnam. though we heard the comparison with the soviet invasion, i was just wondering what all of your views were on vietnam, and whether they are comparable or what ways they may not be? >> wow. i think we'll defer to frank who was old enough -- [laughter] >> to do that. but, you know, in a sense, the war in vietnam was fought against. we withdrew because of domestic reasons. not so much what happened in vietnam. the soviets also the same thing. they did not lose a single encounter to the afghan jihad while they were there for almost ten years. major encounter. in vietnam, we didn't really lose any major encounter to the north vietnamese. the war will be fought within washington. we're fighting two wars. you have to really look at both of them together. >> there's a -- i think there's a very important disof text between vietnam and afghanistan. vietnam was bipo
. >> hello, i'm with the "washington quarterly" at cis. every since obama has come into office and his speech on november 1 about the troop surge, comparisons have been drawn with vietnam. though we heard the comparison with the soviet invasion, i was just wondering what all of your views were on vietnam, and whether they are comparable or what ways they may not be? >> wow. i think we'll defer to frank who was old enough -- [laughter] >> to do that. but, you know, in...
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and after 9/11 washington's approach to iraq changed. and this you argued in the spring or in march of 2002 objectively the threat from iraq haven't worsened as a result of 11 of september but what had however changed was the tolerance of the international community and especially that of the united states. before i go into my first question, summary of the situation thus far. can i ask what extent in this period before and after 9/11, before we and the british government were set on a new strategy to what extent was there a debate about the strategic options over iraq, the relevant cabinet committee which was gop didn't meet in this period were you putting a range of different options before the prime minister? >> thank you. my idea with the period before 9/11 and after if i may, before 9/11, we were essentially trying to contain interesting policy which was containment. i came in as the foreign secretary in june of 2001 and i was briefed on the problems we were facing with the existing sanctions. i saw papers my predecessor robin cook
and after 9/11 washington's approach to iraq changed. and this you argued in the spring or in march of 2002 objectively the threat from iraq haven't worsened as a result of 11 of september but what had however changed was the tolerance of the international community and especially that of the united states. before i go into my first question, summary of the situation thus far. can i ask what extent in this period before and after 9/11, before we and the british government were set on a new...
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appeare the washington journal this morning before an audience of the george washington university students. this is 45 minutes. >> host: we welcome juan williams of national public radio and fox news channel. let's get beyond the headlines what we've seen over the last 72 hours with comments from harry reid. is this a teachable moment in race relations as president obama referred to with what he was talking about last summer? >> guest: i think this is. it's interesting also many levels life again part it's generational, stevens, when you talk about teachable moment especially here with ought of the people in the audience laughing when they hear a word like negro i think their paniers cockup. what exactly is he referring to. is this intended as an insult, is that word the equivalent of the n-word? why are people upset about that word and the notion of dialect? again, i think it's rich for exploration and as you say it's teachable. i also think that when people get into an issue like this can color someone is more electable in the opinion of a major political figure like the senate majority
appeare the washington journal this morning before an audience of the george washington university students. this is 45 minutes. >> host: we welcome juan williams of national public radio and fox news channel. let's get beyond the headlines what we've seen over the last 72 hours with comments from harry reid. is this a teachable moment in race relations as president obama referred to with what he was talking about last summer? >> guest: i think this is. it's interesting also many...
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when i first came to washington in 1980 and working for the "congressional quarterly", i thought that i don't want to learn all love the rules of congress. i was going to be the bobby byrd. and after about a month and a half of him in my head with their rules for retiree learned the rule i would find exceptions. one of my colleagues said there is only one rule is you need to know. at the end of the day congress can do whatever it wants to do. haven't we seen that rule particularly in this area of fiscal policy dominated days demonstrated over and over and why would this system work where others have failed? >> there are bad rules and good rules. there were seven problems and one i mentioned but hollings said dos the current system which is not bipartisan and cut him did you don't teddy neff you have an arbitrary fixed goal then we have a sequester which is politically unrealistic. but this basically has a carriage, a stick and electric camera. that character is work together and you can reconcile your differences so it gives them a reason to work together and with the reconciliation b
when i first came to washington in 1980 and working for the "congressional quarterly", i thought that i don't want to learn all love the rules of congress. i was going to be the bobby byrd. and after about a month and a half of him in my head with their rules for retiree learned the rule i would find exceptions. one of my colleagues said there is only one rule is you need to know. at the end of the day congress can do whatever it wants to do. haven't we seen that rule particularly in...
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to continue to be so washington. i know folks, when we are in town, they spend a lot of time reading the polls and looking at focus groups and interpreting which party has the upper hand in november in 2012, and so on and so on and so on. that is their obsession. i am not a pundit. i'm just the president. take it for what it is worth. i do not believe the american people want us to focus on our job security. they want us to focus on their job security. [applause] i do not think they want more partisanship or more obstruction. they did not send us to washington to fight each other in some sort of political cage match to see who comes out alive. that is not what they want. they sent us to washington to work together and get things done, to solve the problems they are grappling with every single day. i think your constituents would want to know that, despite the fact that it does not get a lot of attention, you and i have actually worked together on a number of occasions. there have been times when we have acted in a bi
to continue to be so washington. i know folks, when we are in town, they spend a lot of time reading the polls and looking at focus groups and interpreting which party has the upper hand in november in 2012, and so on and so on and so on. that is their obsession. i am not a pundit. i'm just the president. take it for what it is worth. i do not believe the american people want us to focus on our job security. they want us to focus on their job security. [applause] i do not think they want more...
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and then, george washington vanderbilt is mysterious. he goes to west point and is in the union army, but is goes awol? >> yes, something that i founded the national archives with the help of the stop the debt the youngest son, george washington vanderbilt, was by all accounts vanderbilts pride and joy because of the three sons he was the only one who liked vanderbilt himself was athletic. vanderbilt was someone of just immense personal capabilities. 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, straight as an indian was the description. and this is a guy who got involved and one fistfights into his 50's. you know, he was not -- you know, he was not just good business. he was also a good card player, excellent horse racer, somebody who was just always out to compete and win under all circumstances. and here his sons were, one of the put it cornel is a gambling addict and epileptic. william -- >> may have been. >> it is possible. and his son william was very good in business but he was kind of pudgy and unathletic and kind of a sad talk personally in his deme
and then, george washington vanderbilt is mysterious. he goes to west point and is in the union army, but is goes awol? >> yes, something that i founded the national archives with the help of the stop the debt the youngest son, george washington vanderbilt, was by all accounts vanderbilts pride and joy because of the three sons he was the only one who liked vanderbilt himself was athletic. vanderbilt was someone of just immense personal capabilities. 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, straight as...
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. >> each year the washington center brings thousands of students to washington tos of or government first hand. they will discuss politics, government, and their future. sunday night on c-span. >> secretary of state hillary clinton and foreign minister of yemen met with the press. this is about 10 minutes. >> good afternoon. i am pleased to welcome the foreign minister to the state department today. we've had a very open and productive conversation about a number of important issues. our two nations are working together as partners to improve yemen's capacity to deliver vital services, control its borders, and conduct effective counterterrorist activities, improve services to the people of yemen. we face a common threat from those violent extremist who target civilians without mercy or remorse. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has killed dozens of yemenis in recent years, including seven soldiers who died guarding the united states embassy during an attack by suicide bombers on september 17, 2008. we have seen al qaeda in the arabian peninsula kill tourist in yemen, yemeni security
. >> each year the washington center brings thousands of students to washington tos of or government first hand. they will discuss politics, government, and their future. sunday night on c-span. >> secretary of state hillary clinton and foreign minister of yemen met with the press. this is about 10 minutes. >> good afternoon. i am pleased to welcome the foreign minister to the state department today. we've had a very open and productive conversation about a number of important...
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the weather was bad and we stayed in washington. i think it was that one where the decision was taken that we would give this as a briefing paper to the sunday journalists, the press, there were half a dozen of them traveling on the plane to washington. as it happened it got next to no coverage at all. it was interesting, if i was quite interesting. they were -- it was there, it may be informed some of the things they wrote or not i don't know. but contrary to the september dossier which fought massive global exposure this got relatively little. and it became much better known and rather unfortunate controversy when it emerged the routinely stated it was taken off routine and wasn't. i'm not apologizing, i'm not defending alistair right away but it was taken from an article in the middle east journal. and then once that as it were process plant became exposed i think it was by 24 news frenzy. >> can i just go back to what you just said? there is a context in which this was being done what was it considered important to have a docume
the weather was bad and we stayed in washington. i think it was that one where the decision was taken that we would give this as a briefing paper to the sunday journalists, the press, there were half a dozen of them traveling on the plane to washington. as it happened it got next to no coverage at all. it was interesting, if i was quite interesting. they were -- it was there, it may be informed some of the things they wrote or not i don't know. but contrary to the september dossier which fought...
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i mentioned george washington's. was that the senate was to perhaps cool passions that would be enacted by a body elected every two years. the senate was originally representatives of states. they were elected starting last century. very rapidly over the last few years -- and both parties have affected this, but over the last four years, republicans in the senate have grown this to historic proportions in terms of utilization of a filibuster -- of the filibuster, by geometric progression, the numbers of time cloture needs to be an vote or voted upon. americans are frustrated by that. the majority rules. it is one thing to have a considered process. it is another thing to have a broken process, and many of us believe that the senate process is broken, and when i say many of us, i speak for many members of the u.s. senate, as well. there is this gridlock created by this necessity not to have a majority on a vote but to have some sort of a super majority -- supermajority. in fact, when you get over 55% of the vote, you
i mentioned george washington's. was that the senate was to perhaps cool passions that would be enacted by a body elected every two years. the senate was originally representatives of states. they were elected starting last century. very rapidly over the last few years -- and both parties have affected this, but over the last four years, republicans in the senate have grown this to historic proportions in terms of utilization of a filibuster -- of the filibuster, by geometric progression, the...
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>> thank you, richard and all of you for coming to light on a brisk morning here in washington. also i would like to think scott for putting together a very interesting project, 3:00 took a group of areas to explore. i'm going to take us -- peter said we were out of the box on some of these areas of cooperation. i'm going to take us back into what might traditionally be the box for cooperation between the u.s. and iraq and that is security cooperation. but a corner of that box that is not explored well enough and that is the area of stability operations and reconstruction and i will get to why that hasn't been explored but for several years while i was in the pentagon and previous to that i spent a lot of my military career looking for ways to expand cooperation and find ways to broaden and deepen this alliance. on the one hand the alliance managers have struggled to give the alliance more heft to provide to give more versatility , more applicability if you will as a tool of national policy. on the other hand, we've looked to diversify the portfolio somewhat and provide that a b
>> thank you, richard and all of you for coming to light on a brisk morning here in washington. also i would like to think scott for putting together a very interesting project, 3:00 took a group of areas to explore. i'm going to take us -- peter said we were out of the box on some of these areas of cooperation. i'm going to take us back into what might traditionally be the box for cooperation between the u.s. and iraq and that is security cooperation. but a corner of that box that is not...
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this segment is from monday morning's washington journal. contributing editor to "new york times magazine." he wrote a piece on june biden. joining us from new york right now, good morning. you wrote in that piece instead of the role every bus president wants, but which only his best -- predecessor had enjoyed to be the last voice in the room. so one year later is he the last voice, in terms of policy decision? guest: i think so. if there was anyone who was the last he is in it. being the last was in the room in the bush administration meant that you could drive policy. bush came into office knowing almost nothing about foreign policy and ended up to be enormously suggestible. dick cheney was influential because he was talking to george bush. that would never happen in the obama administration. whoever is the last voice is still speaking to mr. obama but this is an administration formed by the president. the one who matters the most depends very much on the sun deck but within that circle, -- circle but within that circle, mr. biden is very
this segment is from monday morning's washington journal. contributing editor to "new york times magazine." he wrote a piece on june biden. joining us from new york right now, good morning. you wrote in that piece instead of the role every bus president wants, but which only his best -- predecessor had enjoyed to be the last voice in the room. so one year later is he the last voice, in terms of policy decision? guest: i think so. if there was anyone who was the last he is in it. being...
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also with us on washington journal was republican representative pete hoekstra of michigan, the ranking member of the intelligence committee. >> host: we talk now with representative pete, congressman you will be getting a briefing today by the administration on the christmas day bombing attempt. what do you want to know? >> guest: there's a couple of things i want to know. number one this is kind of personal for me i come from steve michigan and this was an attack on the largest city of detroit, so we have any indication at all that detroit was picked for a specific reason and this is an indication that it may be a target sometime again in the future or was detroit just a choice of convenience? it could have been atlantic or minneapolis, could have been new york or any other city. the guy was just getting to detroit. and the second thing is i really want to find out why after fort hood which had very much the same footprint the american-born radical clerk in yemen, it had al qaeda of the arabian peninsula and it was an attack on america. what steps did the administration take immediate
also with us on washington journal was republican representative pete hoekstra of michigan, the ranking member of the intelligence committee. >> host: we talk now with representative pete, congressman you will be getting a briefing today by the administration on the christmas day bombing attempt. what do you want to know? >> guest: there's a couple of things i want to know. number one this is kind of personal for me i come from steve michigan and this was an attack on the largest...